Mississippi Digest Annotated: A Complete Digest of All Reported Mississippi Decisions from the Earliest Times to September 2, 1911, Volume 3

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Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1912
 

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Page 183 - ... 1. By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer which arose from or had not been discovered or remedied owing to the negligence of the employer or of any person in the service of the employer and intrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, machinery, or plant, were in proper condition; 2.
Page 169 - Knowledge by any employee injured, of the defective or unsafe character or condition of any machinery, ways or appliances, shall be no defense to an action for injury caused thereby, except as to conductors or engineers in charge of dangerous or unsafe cars, or engines voluntarily operated by them.
Page 559 - ... infant child or children; and the executor, administrator, or guardian may, at any time within two years after the death of the surviving parent, and in accordance with the laws of the State...
Page 344 - No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit under this State, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such term, except such offices as may be filled by elections by the people.
Page 399 - ... if any person transact such business in his own name, without any such addition; all the property, stock, and choses in action acquired or used In such business shall, as to the creditors of any such person, be liable for the debts of such person.
Page 53 - Further dividends shall be made in like manner as often as occasion requires; And after the third meeting of creditors no further meeting shall be called, unless ordered by the court. If at any time there shall be in the hands of the assignee any outstanding debts or other property, due or belonging to the estate, which...
Page 389 - Co ,' or like words, and fail to disclose the name of his principal or partner by a sign in letters easy to be read, placed conspicuously at the house...
Page 514 - The second refused instruction, which was to the effect that, if the jury believed from the evidence that the...
Page 135 - The question of probable cause is a mixed proposition of law and fact Whether the circumstances alleged to show it probable, or not probable, are true and existed, is a matter of fact; but whether, supposing them true, they amount to a probable cause, is a question of law: and upon this distinction proceeded the case of Reynolds and Kennedy, 1 Wils.
Page 14 - ... respect to the first question, the ordinary rule of law is that, when the law creates a duty and the party is disabled from performing it without any default of...

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